Donald Hall

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.