There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.
Aleksandar HemonI did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
Aleksandar HemonIf you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
Aleksandar HemonYour memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
Aleksandar Hemon