That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.