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

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.