It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

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