People Tend To Forget That The Word

I Have Come To The Realization That History Is Not A Fixed Thing, A Collection Of Precise Dates, Facts And Events (even Cogent Commencement Quotes) That Add Up To A Quantifiable, Certain, Confidently Known, Truth. It Is A Mysterious And Malleable Thing.

I Enjoy Total Creative Control Right Now. Nobody Tells Me To Make It Longer, Shorter, Better, Sexier, More Violent, Whatever.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

We All Think That An Exception Is Going To Be Made In Our Case And Were Going To Live Forever. Being A Human Is Actually Arriving At The Understanding That Thats Not Going To Be. Story Is There To Remind Us That Its Just Ok.

Write: Write Letters. Keep Journals. Besides Your Children, There Is No Surer Way Of Achieving Immortality.