The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Web site operators won't be able to stay in business if they can't meet consumers' expectations in these areas.

The main driver this week for the dollar has been the paring back of Fed rate expectations. The dollar is going to decline further this year.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

Both 'Freaky Friday' and 'Mean Girls' were movies, not unlike this, that you went into with low expectations, but I was delighted by. Romantic comedy is delicate, in developing the story, in casting, getting the right two people together, and directing it. In this one, even more so, because it deals with life and death, too. It could be melodramatic in the wrong hands, and (Waters) needed to balance these elements. I think he was able to let both things live, and that it had an emotional reality but it never let go of its comic heart.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.