Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.
I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.
Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.
According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.
The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.