A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. . . He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.