“Promise creates a multitude of heartbreaks.”
“I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.”
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
“The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.”
“...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)”