On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.