My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.