I'm Not A Movie Person. They're Collaborations

Ever Since The Christmas Of 1953, I Have Felt That The Yuletide Is A Special Hell For Those Families Who Have Suffered Any Loss Or Who Must Admit To Any Imperfection; The So-called Spirit Of Giving Can Be As Greedy As Receiving-christmas Is Our Time To Be Aware Of What We Lack, Of Who's Not Home.

… But Only Because Exhaustion Is A Life-sign; It Is At Least A Form Of Being Human.

I've Always Preferred Writing In Longhand. I've Always Written First Drafts In Longhand.

I Am Not Attracted To Writers By Style. What Style Do Dickens, Grass, And Vonnegut Have In Common? How Silly! I Am Attracted To What Makes Them Angry, What Makes Them Passionate, What Outrages Them, What They Applaud And Find Sympathetic In Human Beings And What They Detest About Human Beings, Too. They Are Writers Of Great Emotional Range.

Gender Mattered A Whole Lot Less To Shakespeare Than It Seems To Matter To Us.