The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.
Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like.
