I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
James WolcottWhat's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
James WolcottPopular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
James WolcottPeople want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.
James Wolcott