The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

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

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

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

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

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.