Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Books are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Men make counterfeit money in many more cases money makes counterfeit men.
I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
As far as hypnosis is concerned I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long where it really is nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
I have a book coming out in September for example where the plot concerns counterfeiting and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters for example I have to do a lot of research online.
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.