It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

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.

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

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.