Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.