American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.