The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.
Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?
I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job!