That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read…

- Anthony Lane

The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Att…

- Anthony Lane

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there ar…

- Anthony Lane

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.

- Anthony Lane

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 two paragraphs. It's ha…

- Anthony Lane

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

- Anthony Lane

We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...

- Anthony Lane

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an ele…

- Anthony Lane

Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.

- Anthony Lane