A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.