Book awards - in AMERICA, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another GOAL in MIND: sales. They KNOW that the Pulitzer STAMP can sell a book.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have MADE no secret of their DESIRE to STAMP out individualism and ENTERPRISE.

Running a MAGAZINE is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs EVERY so OFTEN. THOUGH there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of TIME to put your stamp on a publication.

I must admit, I don't TRY to PUT my STAMP on ANYTHING; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another WAY.

Fandom GREW FIRST through INDIVIDUAL correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.

I THINK I have more stamps in my PASSPORT than most STAMP collectors have in their COLLECTIONS.

If there is an art of living, it is not SOMETHING that can be TAUGHT timelessly. We have LESSONS to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we SIMPLY uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century SOIL.

Why I talk so seriously about ART is that art is the only thing that HELPS PEOPLE STAY alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't GET rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.