The Perfect Borscht Is What Life Should

There's A Social And Human Necessity For Some Kind Of Continuity, But It's Not Axiomatic And Not Something You're Born Into; It's Something You Have To Work At. And One Of The Ways To Work At It - Perhaps The Best - Is Storytelling: Telling Stories About Yourself To Others, Telling Stories About Yourself To Yourself, Telling Stories About Others To Others.

I Never Thought Of Myself As An Outsider. Because Outside Of What? You Would Have To Give Advantage To This Space Where You're Not, To Think Of It As Sovereign Because You're Not There. I Was Always In The Center Of Where I Needed To Be.

I Like To Blur The Line Between Fact And Fiction, But Not To Condescend To The Reader By Enmeshing Her/him Into Some Sort Of A Postmodern Coop.

If You Have Information You've Got The World By The Balls. But We Have To Convert Information Into Knowledge In Order To Make It Humanly Useful.

Chicago Has Very Few Public Spaces Where People Are Encouraged To Get Together. It's Partly To Prevent Riots, And Also To Segregate A City With A History Of Racial Segregation.