"It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Friday Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.”
“There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.”
“They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.”
“Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.”
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.”
“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.”
“There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.”

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