It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.