It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
You have to understand, having a good time is not my idea of having a good time.
Good fortune may forbode bad luck, which may in turn disguise good fortune.
It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried bur...
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an award...
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spen...
We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
My dad is such a good man, hard-working.
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
I think a good song is a good song is a good song.
But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
I'm alive. That's a good thing.
Never repent a good action.
Where there's no good within, no good comes out.
