I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.
I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes. . . I really do not see the signal!