A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.
If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted, it would be well worth all the zeal, labour, and expense. If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things. . . Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty