
Bigger and Blacker (HBO, 1999)
Responding to a reporter question during The Beatles Australian tour of if they were aware of everything going on around them. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5UUQM2Qy4
Bigger and Blacker (HBO, 1999)
Preface
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Context: The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 748)
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”