Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?. . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.
Go inside the sweetness of life, catch the places where you genuinely were moved by or connected with life, and you'll find in there kind of a light that can direct you when the cacophony gets very noisy and you get confused and lost, that can direct you towards what you care about.
Here's what a lot of the media want us to believe: One day, we'll get everything right about our appearance. Our hair will look fabulous, our skin will be smooth and crease-free, men will have perfect six-pack abs and we'll be three sizes smaller than we are now. We'll look so good we'll have made over not just our looks but our lives.