‘Things do go right sometimes.’

‘You can’t just come to a stop because bad things happen.’
‘Starting implies a beginning.’
‘Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.’
‘I have often pondered on the anomalies of ‘show business’, which is not really a business but a game played with all the petty deceits, subterfuges and bitcheries one would expect to find in a provincial amateur dramatics society.’
‘LA is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages. I don’t want to be a neat little package.’
from Instant Party : Musings, Memories and Minutiae by Alan Clayson
‘I was able to get up in the mornings and make the arrival of a new day sound like a party.’
‘It (love) is always based upon some mutual requirement, or complementary need. The point is to concentrate on what you have got with anyone and not on what you haven’t.’
‘The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it.’
‘Writing should be a gift, to oneself, to the reader, and to God.’