When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.
When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
The comfort and sweetness of peace.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.