I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.