Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

The Secret Revealer is the Righteous God.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.