It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.