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Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners - And I Really Wish Somebody Had Told This To Me - That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work... Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste.

We're Jews, My Family, And Jews Break Down Into Two Distinct Subcultures: Book Jews And Money Jews. We Were Money Jews.

The Truth Is, I Just Don't Have That Much Time To See Movies. So If I Get Two Hours Where I Can Actually See A Film, I Don't Want To Go Backwards, I Want To Go Forwards.

It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting. It's Really, Really Hard. It's Like A Law Of Nature, A Law Of Aerodynamics, That Anything That's Written Or Anything That's Created Wants To Be Mediocre. The Natural State Of All Writing Is Mediocrity... So What It Takes To Make Anything More Than Mediocre Is Such An Act Of Will.

One Reason I Do The Live Shows - And The Monthly Speeches At Public Radio Stations - Is To Remind Myself That People Hear The Show, That It Has An Audience, That It Exists In The World. It's So Easy To Forget That.