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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
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The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
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Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
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What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
