There Is Nothing In The Dark That

You Can Be A Hunchback And A Dwarf And What-all. If You Write Beautifully, You Can Write Beautifully.

I Suppose We Think Euphemistically That All Writers Write Because They Have Something To Say That Is Truthful And Honest And Pointed And Important. And I Suppose I Subscribe To That, Too. But God Knows When I Look Back Over Thirty Years Of Professional Writing, I'm Hard-pressed To Come Up With Anything That's Important. Some Things Are Literate, Some Things Are Interesting, Some Things Are Classy, But Very Damn Little Is Important.

I'd Love To Be Able To Write An In-depth Piece Of What Causes Men Like [richard] Nixon And [h.r.]haldeman And [john] Ehrlichman And All The Rest Of Them Not Only To Run, But What Causes Us To Vote For Them.

If You Write Beautifully, You Write Beautifully, That's All.

You Could Do Much More In Movies Than You Could On Tv, And Even Movies Were Heavily Censored. But In Television, The Areas Of Timorousness Were Fairly Laid Out. Race Relations. Sex. Politics. There Was A Whole Conglomeration Of Taboo Themes. And Even To Date, Though Television Has Become A Much Freer Medium, It's Still Far Less Free, Far Less Creatively Untrammeled Than Are The Movies. They're Infinitely More Adult In That Respect.