I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
