We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.