What We Have To Do Is Act

Writing Is, In The End, That Oddest Of Anomalies: An Intimate Letter To A Stranger.

Travel, In The Superficial Sense At Least, Is A Good Cure For Loneliness. When You Travel, Especially In The Third World, You Quickly Find That You Get More Friends Than You Know What To Do With.

What Is Fascinating About A Place Like Los Angeles Airport Is That It Is Lots And Lots Of People, Many Of Whom Have Saved Up All Their Lives And Channeled All Of Their Energies Toward Coming To The Promised Land Of Abundance And Plenty - The American Dream. But As Soon As They Arrive Here They Get A Crash Course In The American Reality.

We Have More And More Ways To Communicate, As Thoreau Noted, But Less And Less To Say.

I Exult In The Fact I Can See Everywhere With A Flexible Eye; The Very Notion Of Home Is Foreign To Me, As The State Of Foreignness Is The Closest Thing I Know To Home.