I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
