Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardboard track: The toy car was yours, and you invested it with importance and enhanced it with fantasy and pitied it because it was small, like you were. Such games were weapons against the ennui of endless Saturdays.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.