In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.