POOR ALLIE’S ALMANACK

Honesty is a perfectly adequate policy.
The line between Sincerity and Sanctimony appears only very faintly; sometimes you have to laugh a little to see it clearly.
I do Waste a Lot of Time by other people’s measure; I’m simply taking back some of the Time that other people’s measures have wasted for me.
Listen closely to what people say they don’t want and you’ll hear what they do want.
There are only three questions in Show Business: Dead, not Dead? Gay, not Gay? Jew, not Jew?
Sometimes you’ve got to turn your brain All the Way Off in order to create anything.
“We don’t have a lot of time, so we’ll have to work very slowly.” – (Josephine Abady, via Laura Linney)
In the Show Business you’re On even when you’re Off.
It’s better to flee from loneliness than to stay and fight it out.
Some people have to be Old before they can be Young.
Every Knock is Not Opportunity.
Rather than writing a novel based on your life, try living a life based on your novel.
I don’t know what I’m doing, only that I’ve cleared my plate for it.

Miss Mulligan