I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.