There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.