It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity! Through Buddha And through Daruma alike Thou hast cleft thy way.
coming down with something going away with nothing
It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.
There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house
No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.
I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger
I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.
Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.
I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these charact...
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
We call them grunters. They're ghost hunters but grunters is more appropriate because most of them are pigs.
