My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.