Vincent Canby - on the Academy Awards

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby - The New York Times, November 11, 1984
America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side.

- Vincent Canby - on the Academy Awards