Matthew O.

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.”
― Roger Ebert

“If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.”
― Roger Ebert

“At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.”
― Roger Ebert