I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
L. A. was never really that interesting to me. I never really liked it. I like it now more than ever. It took me years to get used to it. But, it's not my kind of place.
I was never a guy that was really good with a gang of guys anyway.
With two kids. It's always too busy.
I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
Midwestern people have the most judgmental assholes ever. I'm sorry, but it's true.
The thing I don't like about L. A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.