The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.