#ric

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american cinema #cinema #i #important #important question

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ↗

— Erica Jong

#church #circus #country #deserves #every

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. ↗

— Erica Jong

#afford #beijing #bouncing #certain #chinese

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ↗

— Erica Jong

#between #brain #chiefly #ears #god

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #between #criticizing #enormous #gap

Solitude is un-American. ↗

— Erica Jong

#un-american

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. ↗

— Erica Jong

#richer #sex #society #women #women are

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection