I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.