How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
I only have one idol: John Lennon.
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
I feel sorry for high school teams still named the Cougars. Now what does the coach say? Get out there and play like horny old ladies!
I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.
When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.