Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
. . because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice. ” ~ Durzo Blint
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.
We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.
If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step.