It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.
For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.
We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.
We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that