Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the wom….

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 n….

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object..

Luck always favors the comely..

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 t….

Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ….

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days..

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment..

He who does not like you will defame you in jest..

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul..