...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused