There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.
Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.
Life has no beginning, middle or end.
I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.