A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st. , but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.