There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.