An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.