Somebody told you, and you hold it as an article of faith, that higher education is an unassailable good. This notion is so dear to you that when I question it you become angry. Good. Good, I say. Are...

If I fail all the time, it must be that I think of myself as a failure. If I do not want to think of myself as a failure, perhaps I should begin by succeeding now and again. Look. The tests, you see,...

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...

the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we...

What gives you the right. Yes. To speak to a woman in your private … Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You feel yourself empowered … you say so yourself. To strut. To posture. To "perform." To "Call...

The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.

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...

The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.

The man had been the head of the postwar European operation called Aliyah Bet, the clandestine resettlement of the Jewish remnant of the Holocaust in Palestine. He had come to this position as a...

The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

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But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change. For

For we rationalize, objectify, and personalize the process of the game exactly as we do that of a play, a drama. For, finally, it is a drama, with meaning for our lives. Why else would we watch it?

The millennia-long evolution of the human family as a means of dealing with the environment was discarded by my generation of fantasists, in favor of a concept not only artificial, but inchoate:...

JOHN: You said "Good day." I think that it is a nice day today.CAROL: Is it?JOHN: Yes, I think it is.CAROL: And why is that important?JOHN: Because it is the essence of all human communication. I say...

The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's plays-it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they invert the megalomaniacal equation and make...

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater...