I'm not sure I would have anyway, ... If I had been writing it at the time she died, that would have become part of it. It was about a specific period of going crazy and getting over it. |
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit. |
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit. |
It's always something minor. Some bit of information. Some interesting development. I think it hits people forever. |
Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. |
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. |
That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out |
That's something we have to feel out. It occurred to me to begin with, as a way of taking it a step further, but there's another argument that the step further may be a bridge too far. |
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. |
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. |
The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it. |
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. |
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. |
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. |
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. |