The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

...(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 Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

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

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!