I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.
Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before.
I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
