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The Empty Nest Is Underrated.

... When I Finish Reading People, I Always Feel That I Have Just Spent Four Days In Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily At Least Makes Me Feel Dirty; People Makes Me Feel That I Haven't Read Or Learned Or Seen Anything At All.

We Have Lived Through The Era When Happiness Was A Warm Puppy, And The Era When Happiness Was A Dry Martini, And Now We Have Come To The Era When Happiness Is 'knowing What Your Uterus Looks Like'.

Reading Is Everything. Reading Makes Me Feel Like I've Accomplished Something, Learned Something, Become A Better Person. Reading Makes Me Smarter. Reading Gives Me Something To Talk About Later On. Reading Is The Unbelievably Healthy Way My Attention Deficit Disorder Medicates Itself. Reading Is Escape, And The Opposite Of Escape; It's A Way To Make Contact With Reality After A Day Of Making Things Up, And It's A Way Of Making Contact With Someone Else's Imagination After A Day That's All Too Real. Reading Is Grist. Reading Is Bliss.

One Of The Best Things About Directing Movies, As Opposed To Merely Writing Them, Is That There's No Confusion About Who's To Blame: You Are.