And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.
An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.
The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.