Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.
Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light. ' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
The world itself makes us sick of the world.