It's Sometimes Discouraging To See All Of

What This Generation Was Bred To At Television's Knees Was Not Wisdom, But Cynicism.

Sex Is The Great Leveler, Taste The Great Divider.

I Live In A Rather Special World. I Only Know One Person Who Voted For Nixon. Where They Are I Don't Know. They're Outside My Ken. But Sometimes When I'm In A Theater I Can Feel Them.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.

If You Think It So Easy To Be A Critic, So Difficult To Be A Poet Or A Painter Or Film Experimenter, May I Suggest You Try Both? You May Discover Why There Are So Few Critics, So Many Poets.