History Is An Angel Being Blown Backwards

Audiences, Whether They're Seeing A Film Or A Reading Or Whatever It Is, A Concert, They Decide Very Quickly What Kind Of Show It Is, And Then They Judge It. They Judge The Rest Of The Thing By Whether It Conforms To Their Rules For What A Good Symphony Orchestra Would Be.

Last Night, I Had That Dream Again. I Dreamt I Had To Take A Test, In A Dairy Queen, On Another Planet.

I'm A Real Workaholic.

Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.

People Who Were Born Alone Are Defined By Feelings Like "who's Gonna Be With Me When I Die? Who Will Ever Understand Me? Will I Always Feel So Alone? Maybe If I Write A Book..." And You Forget That That Doesn't Help You So Much.