Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L. A. to Dickens's London.
It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
That's what I love about the Pleiadians. It allows people to start understanding their own human process and understand the dynamic that is going on on the planet right now.
All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.