There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wr

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

John Lennon

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Kate Millett

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Kurt Vonnegut

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Sir Henry Taylor

Power is not a means; it is an end.

George Orwell

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Shelley Duvall

Don't let them tell us stories

Albert Camus

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Jeremy Taylor

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Jeff Ross