It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

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.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

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

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

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?