By the time you've reached your sixties, you do kn... -Terry Pratchett

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own inner...
I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope....
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It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to he...
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather...
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this....
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds....
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read any...
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for tel...
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but ...
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning,...
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces...
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated f...
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb....
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorg...
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom....
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me....
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom....
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show inst...