Manuel Puig

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.