Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. . . They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.