Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.