I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.