The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.