To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
“I don’t know that I love L.A. but I’m fascinated by it, find it more interesting than any other American city if not as beautiful or dramatic, and at some intuitive level I feel I understand it.”