I've got a crush on my backing singer.
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.
People. . . have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received. . . they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?
I have been bullied for sure in my life. I am only 5'2", was chubby most of my life so I did get teased for that and also for being in movies.
Relaxation is the absence of worry.
The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.