Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.
Winners don't eat wieners.
I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
. . . . we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt. . . we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?
It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow quite sternly. . . for a good long while. Then it turns out in some way to be insurmountably wrong and I am forced to re-think every component. Usually at this point I throw hundreds of pages away.