“A movie is a collection of beautiful lies that somehow add up to being the truth, or a truth. In this case an ugly one. But the first spoken line in any movie is not a lie and is always the truest.”

The hope is she’ll find a movie that changes her in the way she didn’t know she wanted to be changed.

I could handle crowds but only when I could hide in them.

I think we’re in more control of what we remember and what we don’t remember than we assume.

My power play is a form of mesmerism: calling out the liars as liars without having to use the word.

I was happy to be the weird guy (“Weird Guy” was what she called me) from the state school who occasionally entered her orbit. My comet-like appearances made me seem more interesting than I was.