Roger Ebert Quotes

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

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.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

We laugh, that we may not cry.