Roma Lingk Roma ,i>is talking to him. * * *: . . . Eh? What I’m saying, what is our life? It’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s Where is the ? And what is it that...
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8...
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? I...
Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead.
Every fear hides a wish.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
Reason.
The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions
Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking about one’s problems for x hours a week, be sufficient to bring one to a state of normalcy?The genius of...
How was her crumbcake?
CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the abilit...
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
Fuck you.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is...
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what is going on in this world. If you're not willing to say that, what you get is ent...