For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.