I could not prove the Years had feet-<br>Yet confident they run.
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
I could not prove the Years had feet-Yet confident they run.
We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated. . . . One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.