What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.