“The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. Deeper, wider, beyond logic. That is where advertising works, not in the upstart cortex. What we ...”

“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”

“His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)”

“To present a whole world that doesnt exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend were polymaths. Thats just the act of all good writing.”

“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's be...”

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

“A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for ...”

“There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!”

“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”

“Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you...”

“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capa...”

“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shir...”