With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the world I live in, with all of its subjectivity, irrationality, and paradox, were those which made free use of myths and symbols, fantastic occurences, florid metaphors, linguistic experiments, etcetera - to depict the experiences of relatively 'realistic' characters - on the level of their emotions and psychology, rather than in terms of what kinds of lives they led or what kind of events they experience.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.