A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

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.

[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.