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.

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

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.

Your life is up to you, You only be what you want to be

I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.