Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.