so you need three hundred dollars? of course, i could give you three hundred dollars. only i'm not going to.
gillis, get this through your head. i'm not just your agent. it's not the ten per cent. i'm your friend.
don't you know the finest things in the world have been written on an empty stomach? once a talent like yours gets into that mocambo- romanoff rut, you're through.
greatest thing that could happen to you. now you'll have to sit behind that typewriter. now you'll have to write.
maybe what you need is another agent.