You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would start to laugh, and then eagerly read the passage aloud to me--and I'd do the same to him! Pratchett's books became a shared source of delight for us back then, and they still are today.
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
To oppose something is to maintain it. . . You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.