We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Sometimes, it's all about the casting.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.