I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters
My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.