I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
From Terry Southern
An angel has no memory.
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
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