Quotes by Oates, Joyce Carol

Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Phy >>

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. >>

In love there are two things -- bodies and words. >>

Quotations about Television

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with >>

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well >>

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes t >>

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Oates, Joyce Carol