Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.