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“The only perfect climate is bed.”
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“It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.”
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“Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.”
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“surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain”
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“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.”
Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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“We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.”
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“I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.”
Source : Monica Baldwin (1949). “I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent”, Hamish Hamilton
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“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”