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.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

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

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.