A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'""Right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger met with President Bush. It's amazing if you think about it. It was the Terminator and the One-Term-inator.

It was written without fear and without research.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.