I Actually Believe In Denial.

Plastic Surgery Is A Way For People To Buy Themselves A Few Years Before They Have To Truly Confront What Ageing Is, Which Of Course Is Not That Your Looks Are Falling Apart, But That You Are Falling Apart And Some-day You Will Have Fallen Apart And Ceased To Exist.

Suddenly, One Day, There Was This Thing Called Parenting. Parenting Was Serious. Parenting Was Fierce. Parenting Was Solemn. Parenting Was A Participle, Like Going And Doing And Crusading And Worrying.

One Of The Things People Always Say To You If You Get Upset Is, Don't Take It Personally, But Listen Hard To What's Going On And, Please, I Beg You, Take It Personally. Understand: Every Attack On Hillary Clinton For Not Knowing Her Place Is An Attack On You. Underneath Almost All Those Attacks Are The Words: Get Back, Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

I Definitely Divide My Life Into Decades. Almost Every Ten Years, Something In My Work Life Has Changed. My Twenties Were My Journalistic Phase, Then There Was My Screenwriting Phase, Then I Became A Director, Then I Started Doing Some Plays.

I Am Living In The Google Years, No Question Of That. And There Are Advantages To It. When You Forget Something, You Can Whip Out Your Iphone And Go To Google. The Senior Moment Has Become The Google Moment, And It Has A Much Nicer, Hipper, Younger, More Contemporary Sound, Doesn't It? By Handling The Obligations Of The Search Mechanism, You Almost Prove You Can Keep Up.... You Can't Retrieve You Life (unless You're On Wikipedia, In Which Case You Can Retrieve An Inaccurate Version Of It).