The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. less than 1 minute read
I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they’re alone and it’s not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you’re going through and are going through it now. less than 1 minute read
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. less than 1 minute read
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. less than 1 minute read
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. less than 1 minute read
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny. less than 1 minute read
My experience is that’s rare - that you have a script that is… what they call ‘film-ready.’ less than 1 minute read
I think everyone’s experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they’re living and the relationships that they have. less than 1 minute read
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. less than 1 minute read
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. less than 1 minute read
