Horton Foote Dies

Horton Foote, the screenwriter of To Kill a Mockingbird, passed away. He was 92 and from the obituary he seemed to have had a good life so no mourning here. What caught my eye, though, was this:

“My first memory was of stories about the past — a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived,” Foote wrote in 1988. “It didn’t take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone and nothing could be done about it.”

Something to keep in mind next time I get nostalgic.