Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.