There Is A Limbo Of The Lost

Divorced, Not Loving Their Abandoned Children As Much As They Loathe Their Former Wives, Directing A Combination Of Need And Hostility Toward The Women Who Drift In And Out Of Their New Lives, They Are, As [one Character] Puts It, "involved In A Variety Of Pharmaceutical Experiments.

The Law Of Unintended Consequences Pushes Us Ceaselessly Through The Years, Permitting No Pause For Perspective.

A Great Novel Is Concerned Primarily With The Interior Lives Of Its Characters, As They Respond To The Inconvenient Narratives That Fate Imposes On Them. Movie Adaptations Of These Monumental Fictions Often Fail Because They Become Mere Exercises In Interior Decoration.

A Movie Star Is Not An Artist, He Is An Art Object.

The Current Moguls Understand That True Media Power Lies Not In Firing Up Our Outrage, As Hearst Did, But In Befuddling It Or Tranquilizing It With New Toys. The Idea Is To Render Us Passive So That They Can Exercise Their Power To Sell Us A Bunch Of Stuff We Mostly Don't Need And Mostly Don't Want.