Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
. . . You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.
What is real is always worth it.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.