I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
Roger EbertWhat'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.
Roger EbertWhat happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
Roger EbertPeople read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.
Roger Ebert