Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. |
Over the course of that morning, I started hearing from a lot of Tribune readers, both on the phone and via e-mail, telling me that they were getting this commencement speech in their e-mail but they remembered reading it in my column, |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. |
That's the central mystery of this whole situation, ... Digital Jam. |
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. |
The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls. |
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape. |
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. |
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. |
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. |