Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.