...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.