St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition...
I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.
Health food makes me sick.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Joe Bradley: Would you like a cup of coffee? Princess Ann: What time is it? Joe Bradley: About one thirty. Princess Ann: One thirty! I must get dressed and go! Joe Bradley: *Why*. What's your hurry? There's lots of time. Princess Ann: No, there isn't...
[Charlie and Grandpa Joe are floating in the fizzy lifting room] [Grandpa Joe does a somersault in midair] Charlie Bucket: Hey, you did it, Grandpa. Grandpa Joe: Ohhhh... ohhhh, I think I hit an air pocket. Charlie Bucket: You can fly to the moon thi...
I sport a cave-man mentality.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Marshall: Louis? Louie where are ya? Louis, where are ya baby bro'? Listen, we didn't follow you all the way from San Francisco to play for free man. We need this one. I need this one, alright? [Louis nods]
Jim Braddock: You drove all the way out here to talk about the weather? Joe Gould: Maybe I was in the neighborhood! Did you ever think of that? A little fresh air! Jim Braddock: Hey Joe, this is Jersey. Joe Gould: Good point... yeah [chuckles] Joe Go...
Joe: What do you think would happen if I got him a professional... you know... Bill: A professional? Joe: Hooker. You know, the kind that can teach things... first-timers, you know... break him in. Bill: But Joe, he's 11. Joe: You're right, you're ri...
A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.
