How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late. - Wilfrid Sheed

His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

The one kind of society that the Church cannot adjust to is no society at all, i.e., a setup where community has become so fragmented that a communal religion is a fiction, sustained only by talk and make-news items in the press and television.