Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.