I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.