One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?. . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.