…the Amount Of Maintenance Involving Hair Is

Consciousness-raising Is At The Very Least Supposed To Bring About An Intimacy, But What It Seems Instead To Bring About Are The Trappings Of Intimacy, The Illusion Of Intimacy, A Semblance Of Intimacy.

The Empty Nest Is Underrated.

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.

American Society Has A Remarkable Ability To Resist Change, Or To Take Whatever Change Has Taken Place And Attempt To Make It Go Away.

Too Few Journalists Become Screenwriters. I Say To All The Would-be Screenwriters: Become Journalists. And I’ll Say To Working Journalists: Do Not Stay Journalists. Become Screenwriters.