Hey dawg, wassup?” he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young black men from underprivileged backgrounds. A linguistic fashion as peculiar as...

Don’t ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don’t want to be one.

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway.