When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Bille August

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Vernon Howard

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Barry Manilow

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

Mary Doria Russell

...loveliness is the Milky Way... but also all the myriad points of radiance streaming from your beauty...

John Geddes

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Thomas Berger

Wie viele einsame Kinder war sein Problem nicht die Einsamkeit an sich, sondern dass er nie allein gelassen wurde, um sie zu geniessen.

Michael Chabon

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

William Hague

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Giovanni Ribisi

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal