If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

No one enjoys being equal.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.