That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said.

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.