Luck Always Favors The Comely.

A Great Novel Is Concerned Primarily With The Interior Lives Of Its Characters, As They Respond To The Inconvenient Narratives That Fate Imposes On Them. Movie Adaptations Of These Monumental Fictions Often Fail Because They Become Mere Exercises In Interior Decoration.

Any Dramatic Series The Producers Want Us To Take Seriously As A Representationof Contemporary Reality Cannot Be Taken Seriously As A Representation Ofanything - Except A Show To Be Ignored By Anyone Capable Of Sitting Uprightin A Chair And Chewing Gum Simultaneously.

There Is A Limbo Of The Lost Through Which American Males Of A Certain Age And Status Almost Inevitably Must Pass These Days.

Divorced, Not Loving Their Abandoned Children As Much As They Loathe Their Former Wives, Directing A Combination Of Need And Hostility Toward The Women Who Drift In And Out Of Their New Lives, They Are, As [one Character] Puts It, "involved In A Variety Of Pharmaceutical Experiments.

He Who Does Not Like You Will Defame You In Jest.