To My MIND, A Well-developed Sense Of Humor Is The Surest Indication Of A Person's Humanity, No MATTER How Black And BITTER That Humor MAY Be.

It Is Indeed HARD For The STRONG To Be Just To The Weak, But ACTING Justly Always Has Its Rewards.

A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic PRESS Will In TIME PRODUCE A PEOPLE As BASE As Itself.

In Grade School, I Was A Complete Geek. You KNOW, There's ALWAYS The Kid Who's Too Short, The Kid Who Wears Glasses, The Kid Who's Not ATHLETIC. Well, I Was All THREE.

The Importance Of Recalls Is To Show That Contaminated Meat Is Getting Out The DOOR. And When You LOOK At These Recalls, In Many WAYS The Most Disturbing Thing About These Recalls Is How Little Of The Meat Actually Winds Up BACK At The PLANT.

And Before I'd Got To The END Of The First Paragraph, I'd Come Up Slap Bang Against A Fundamental Problem That STILL TROUBLES Me Today WHENEVER I Begin A Story, And It's This: Where Am I Telling It From?

Confronting And Undermining The Narratives And IDEAS Of Extremism Must THEREFORE Be One Of Our KEY TASKS. To Do This, We Must Retain The Courage Of Our CONVICTIONS In The Face Of Extremism.

At The POINT Where I'm Trying To Force Something And It's Not Happening, And I'm Getting Frustrated With, Say, WRITING A Poem, I Can Go And Pick Up The Brushes And START Painting. At The Point Where The Painting Seems To Not Be GOING Anywhere, I Go And Pick Up The GUITAR.

The HAPPY PEOPLE Are FAILURES Because They Are On Such GOOD Terms With Themselves They Don't Give A DAMN.