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“You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that’ll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make ’em real.”
― Out of the Easy
― Out of the Easy
“On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.”
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“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”
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“It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.”
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“The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body,” says he, “there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
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