Richard K. Morgan Quotes

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

All experience is good experience.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.