kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

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

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.