I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.