Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your life.

Your mind is your spirit

I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.

A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.