Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.