Los Angeles is many places in one place.

Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.