Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

She may be the only leading lady in America today with the ability to cross one eye without moving the other.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.