The Empty Nest Is Underrated.

You're Born, You Die. Everything In Between Is Subject To Interpretation.

Too Few Journalists Become Screenwriters. I Say To All The Would-be Screenwriters: Become Journalists. And I’ll Say To Working Journalists: Do Not Stay Journalists. Become Screenwriters.

[i] Had Gotten To The Point Where I Simply Could Not Make A Bad Vinaigrette, This Was Not Exactly The Stuff Of Drama. (even Now, I Cannot Believe Mark Would Want To Risk Losing That Vinaigrette. You Just Don't Bump Into Vinaigrettes That Good.)

New Orleans Is One Of The Two Most Ingrown, Self-obsessed Little Cities In The United States. (the Other Is San Francisco.)

Black Makes Your Life So Much Simpler. Everything Matches Black, Especially Black.