I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.