A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.