“He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism...”
“He's like everybody else in television. And Hollywood. And Broadway. He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism and that everything that runs into physical violence is a legitimate climax to something that isn't even-”
“Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism”
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”
“That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.”
“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. ”