The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
. . . telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Our success comes from stability.
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.