To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

A film is a machine made of images

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Art can make chaos seductive.

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.