Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of... →
Alan Ball
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that... →
Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and... →
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of... →
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a... →
It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're... →
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you... →
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be... →
Johnny Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore... →
Lucille Ball