Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.