The Deepest Personal DEFEAT SUFFERED By Human BEINGS Is Constituted By The DIFFERENCE Between What One Was CAPABLE Of Becoming And What One Has In Fact Become.

It Has Been RECOGNIZED Since The Dawn Of Microbiology That The Soil Is INHABITED By A Living Microscopic Population Which Is Responsible For The NUMEROUS Reactions That Take Place In The Soil And That Affect The Life And ECONOMY Of Man In Many Ways.

I Never Wanted To RETURN To HOLLYWOOD Because Hollywood PEOPLE And The Fakeness - Very ARTIFICIAL And Not Dear To My Heart. After I Lived In The Midwest, And I Learned What Sincere, REAL People Were All About, I Never Wanted To Go Back.

Anyone Who Lives In Washington And Has An Official Position Viscerally Understands The COST Of A Lack Of Privacy. Every DINNER - Especially Ones With A JOURNALIST In Attendance - Is Preceded By The Mandatory, 'This Is Off The RECORD.' But Everyone Also Knows, Nothing Is Really 'off The Record.'

I BOUGHT Jayne Mansfield's Mansion In L.A. After Her Death. I Had MET Her In ENGLAND And Remembered Her Perfume. When I Moved In, I Could SMELL Her, And I Saw Her Apparition.

That's The New WAY - With Computers, Computers, Computers. That's The Way We Can Have The Cell Survive And Get Some New Information In High RESOLUTION. We Started About Five YEARS Ago And, TODAY, I THINK We Have Reached The Target.

I Have COVERED Wars, Before The EPIDEMIC Began And SINCE. They Are All Ugly And Painful And Unjust, But For Me, Nothing Has Matched The Dread I FELT While Walking Through The Castro, The Village, Or Dupont CIRCLE At The Height Of The AIDS Epidemic.

You Can Give Me Any Of SHAKESPEARE's PLAYS And I'll Tell You A PARALLEL African Folktale.

The Other THING That Happened Was My Last Military ASSIGNMENT - This Was In The Air FORCE; I Had Enlisted In Order To AVOID Being Drafted As A Private, And Of Course I Only Practiced Medicine Or Psychiatry In The Air Force So I Was Never In Any KIND Of Violent Combat.