Mary Schmich

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a read more

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.