When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.
You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.
Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it.
In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.
