Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

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

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.