If There Is One Thing Left That

California, That Advance Post Of Our Civilization, With Its Huge Aircraft Factories, Tv And Film Studios, Automobile Way Of Life... Its Flavourless Cosmopolitanism, Its Charlatan Philosophies And Religions, Its Lack Of Anything Old And Well-tried Rooted In Tradition And Character.

I Never Read The Life Of Any Important Person Without Discovering That He Knew More And Could Do More Than I Could Ever Hope To Know Or Do In Half A Dozen Lifetimes.

Many A Man Is Praised For His Reserve And So-called Shyness When He Is Simply Too Proud To Risk Making A Fool Of Himself.

Much Of Writing Might Be Described As Mental Pregnancy With Successive Difficult Deliveries.

A Synopsis Is A Cold Thing. You Do It With The Front Of Your Mind. If You're Going To Stay With It, You Never Get Quite The Same Magic As When You're Going All Out.