Finding Fellini

We watched Grease with our children last night. This morning Henry was quoting random lines from the film. He had a particular affinity fo...

The goal is to study something over and over again until it speaks for itself. Sigmund Freud

The 51st (dream) state [excerpt] What if we were Life Or Liberty Or the Pursuit of something new? Between the rocks below and the stars abov...

I just imagine that there is such an idiot as Osgood Fairchild. That there is such an old fool. Then I proceed. Billy Wilder

Way back at the New Year I made some resolutions. I thought I might check in on them. + Make lots of mistakes Check. Especially in relati...

The key to change... is to let go of fear. Rosanne Cash

... PIECE OF ASS! My friends and I used to say that a lot back in the day. Doesn't really work in print or as an adult for that matter...

I'm forty years old today.

I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman

These days I'm far more interested in the Mets winning the NL East and their third baseman David Wright, pictured above, getting thirty ...

There are no answers, only choices. Steven Soderbergh

I trust instinct more than I do study and memory and logical conclusions. Robert Altman

We must not confuse mythology with ideology. Joseph Campbell

The compromise ... is beginning to feel a lack of confidence in your innermost thoughts. And if you don't put these innermost thoughts ...

Your work is to discover your work And then with all your heart To give yourself to it. Buddha

What you don't feel, you will not grasp by art, Unless it wells out of your soul And with sheer pleasure takes control, Compelling every...

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. J. P. Donleavy

It is an obstacle to clear thinking to believe that America's foreign policy serves God's plan to expand human freedom. Michael Igna...

Because I sang his (Ingmar Bergman's) praises so enthusiastically over the decades, when he died many newspapers and magazines called me...

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This ...