Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

'The Third Man, ' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.

Remind to yourself that it's okay not to be perfect

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.