if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.