Oh, the thinks you can think!
Our job as creators is to further define any medium.
If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.
HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.
Wars can destroy everything but hope!