Planning to write is not writing.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.