Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity..
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those w….
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was….
It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither..
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies suc….
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex….
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million l….
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upo….
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if yo….
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what ….
To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out ….
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?.
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ough….
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't ge….
From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one..
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkind….
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, ….
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever..
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. Tha….
Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just lik….
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to piece….