We All Look Good For Our Age.

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.

People Have Only One Way To Be.

You Can Settle For Reality, Or You Can Go Off, Like A Fool, And Dream Another Dream.

So Many Of The Conscious And Unconscious Ways Men And Women Treat Each Other Have To Do With Romantic And Sexual Fantasies That Are Deeply Ingrained, Not Just In Society But In Literature. The Women's Movement May Manage To Clean Up The Mess In Society, But I Don't Know Whether It Can Ever Clean Up The Mess In Our Minds.

When You're Attracted To Someone, It Just Means That Your Subconscious Is Attracted To Their Subconscious, Subconsciously. So What We Think Of As Fate Is Just Two Neuroses Knowing That They Are A Perfect Match. - Sleepless In Seattle