One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

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.

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.

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?

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.