"Really, Jim, respectfully, you’re worrying about very stupid shit."
"Long before you see train The tracks sing and tremble, Long before you know direction Train come from, a hum Announces it soon arrive."
"The action of biological drives, body states and emotions may be an indispensable foundation for rationality."
“By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element—laughter"
"A bride, I realized with a start, she'd once been this stranger's bride."
"Like a social smoker whose supposedly endearing desire to emulate Marlene Dietrich has landed her in a cancer ward"
Her crime fiction and mystery novels are inspired by her career as a travel writer.
“Art is not in some far-off place.”
Philosophy/Critical Theory Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
