There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?