“The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.”
“[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.”
“the cat unsheathes its clawsthe world turns--from "Resovle", written 1956”
“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair,With fingers intertwined...”
“I hurl my heart to halt his pace.--from "Pursuit", written 1956”
“And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered in my life. It was a staircase for killing someone and making it seem like an accident.”