Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk. "].
They don't see that whole pattern. Wormdeath. Wormdeath. I would catch on.
People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family. . . I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it. . . And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.
Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom