Roger Ebert Trying Quotations

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

We must try to contribute joy to the world.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.