On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
