Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

It is difficult to live without judging others. If you have to judge, then judge with love.

Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.

He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.