The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

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?

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.