Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

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

Hope is a dream deferred.

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

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

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.