Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
The Army was my bread and butter.
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.