Roger Ebert

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.

No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.

What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.

I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.

Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.

The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.