He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.