One cannot afford to be a realist.
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
There's something about the people who knew you when you were young- before you had decided who you wanted to be. Before you knew what face you wanted to wear in the world. They're the only ones who really know you, you know?
[Hillary] Clinton campaign says and we heard it at front, they tried to do that, they wanted to do that, they were blocked by James Comey.
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.