I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

I try to avoid giving advice.