Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.
Wonder is our need today, not information.
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.
Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.