This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends.

When in doubt do it.

Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires and ideas.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.