This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.