Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

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.

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