Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.
I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.