I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.

Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Happiness is a way of praying.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.