It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Courage is an act of faith.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Man is created for the glory of God.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

We entertain ourselves with worry when we don't know what to trust. When you trust in what remains beyond temporary form, you are trusting in all that you are, as all that is.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.