A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.