I see her in the image of a Valkyrie maiden, riding her steed into the circle, amid thunder and lightning, and out again, bearing the body of some dead hero across her saddle.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Intellectual responses are known as opinions and Mary had them and had them. Still she was so little of an ideologue as to be sometimes unsettling in her refus…

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner.

He glutted black ravens on the rampart of the stronghold, though he was no Arthur.

When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is…

The greatest hero of Greece was Hercules. He was a personage of quite another order from the great hero of Athens, Theseus. He was what all Greece except Athen…