Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.