The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.