I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.