What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.