All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.