I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.