Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. – Bill Vaughan
Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler
Wed be working in our motel room through the night, and Id come up with an idea at two in the morning, and hed start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever. – Arthur Hiller
