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

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.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

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

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

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

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.