Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.
I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.
Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.