To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.