What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Long days and pleasant nights

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.