It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.
We want what we want—we love who we love.
If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet
Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one.
I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.We always go out on Fridays.It's Thursday, Alvis.You are so tied to routine.
Here she was, barely twenty-eight, working on a studio lot, not doing what she’d dreamed, exactly, but doing what people did in this business: taking meetings, reading scripts, and hearing pitches—pre...
But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we liv...
Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves.
Another part of Bit's unifying urban theory is sprinklers, that you can gauge a neighborhood's wealth by the way people water. If every house has an automatic system, you're looking at a six-figure me...
…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brok...
True sacrifice is painless.
Maybe all love is hopeless.
He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his mem...
Life was a glorious catastrophe.
The water. The feral cats scattered before her.
On the bright side, I have figured out how to fix the American educational system. End it at sixth grade. Brilliant. Then what? Lock them up in empty factories, give them all the Red Bull, condoms, an...
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
Being alive isn't the same thing as living
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.That’s only three.Alvis finished his wine. You have to do disappointment twice.