The content that Jessica Nigri puts out, really displays cosplay in the wrong light.

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

A problem shared is a problem doubled.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.