You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Tennis is physical chess.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.