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'If there's one thing its recent history tells us, it's that the American empire is declining. But if there's one thing that living here has taught me, it's that if it can accept this reality with humility, it might just figure out its gift to the world. Because it will have learned to remember things the way they were, rather than how we might have wished them to be.'

'We may not often think about the fact that it is a struggle to be born. The very fact that we are here is a testament to our survival of a pretty hairy journey. Indeed, being born might appear, to the subjective nearly delivered baby mind, to be the end of life as we know it. Birth is a kind of death. each of us deserves more credit for just getting here in the first place than we may allow.'

''The Searchers' regularly turns up on the best-of lists of self-selecting 'serious' critics. A central question is whether or not it endorses its protagonist's racism or merely represents it.'

On 'Rocky': 'It opens with a picture of Jesus and ends with a guy losing a fight but regaining his dignity.'

'We might need an angry jester like Lenny Bruce to threaten us into taking our own freedom seriously.'

'But still we're let with the feeling, watching 'Somewhere in Time' and 'Roger and Me', that if you wouldn't drop everything to travel back in time for love, or if you wouldn't do everything you could to save something you care about from destruction, then what *would* you do?'

On Hawaii: "It's the place the makers of Lost chose to represent the center of the human universe, and its most well-known custom is that you should bring a gift and take off your shoes when visiting someone's home - partly as a mark of respect and partly to experience the earth with no barrier."

Delaware was freaking fantastic.