Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.