Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

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

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

High school was great when it ended.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.