Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

I do some eccentric dancing.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.