History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

Verbing weirds language.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.