I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.