David Shapiro Quotes

She cries in my arms and I try not to cry. We have never said "I love you" to each other, but it doesn't matter, I don't think.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.

A Book of Glass
On the table, a book of glass. In the book only a few pages with no words But scratched in a diamond-point pencil to pieces in diagonal Spirals, light triangles; and a French curve fractures lines to
elisions.

The last pages are simplest. They can be read backwards and
thoroughly. Each page bends a bit like ludicrous plastic. He who wrote it was very ambitious, fed up, and finished. He had been teaching the insides and outsides of things

To children, teaching the art of Rembrandt to them. His two wives were beautiful and Death begins As a beggar beside them. What is an abstract persona? A painter visits but he prefers to look at perfume in vials.

And I see a book in glass - the words go off In wild loops without words. I should Wake and render them! In bed, Mother says each child Will receive the book of etchings, but the book will be
incomplete, after all.
But I will make the book of glass.

But on some days I will write a post and it does not get as manny Notes as the post I wrote the day before, and I will walk home and think nervously about it, like, "Am I out of good ideas?

I buy us each a 40 oz. of Coors Light because right off the bat, it's important that she knows I am the kind of guy who drinks 40s, not like wine or craft beer or stuff like that.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.