When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish. . . Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS. That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
