The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

I think the world's big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don't begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.