Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.