Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.