Michael

“If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“One might as well, in considering how to watch a movie, recognize the extent to which public life in America has itself become an untidy, unrated motion picture that has a captive but disenchanted audience.”
― David Thomson, How to Watch a Movie

“Gore cinema is not liberating (though the kids who flocked to the theaters may think otherwise), but suffocating, the work of cynical adults having a go at the vulnerability of children.”
― David J. Hogan, Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film

“The eighty-five cent dinner tasted like a discarded mailbag and was served to me by a waiter who looked as if he would slug me for a quarter, cut my throat for six bits, and bury me at sea in a barrel of concrete for a dollar and a half, plus sales tax.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely