As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.
We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.