Anthony Lane Quotes
- The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error…
- Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear…
- That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
- We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.
- I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written…