I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson