Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.