It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
I think you're working and learning until you die.
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
I received free health care.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Death is just life's next big adventure.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.
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