Impermanence is the law of the universe.
Affaires meant 'business. ' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.
Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.
Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little. . . I don't know. I'm ready for something different.
The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then it didn't happen. There's a lot of time-wasting stuff that happens in life with movies.