Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.
I'm a human entropy producer.
Falsehoods border on truths.
I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.