Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing along the way.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.