We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I am not a ventriloquist.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.