A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family.
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
