But We Are What We Are, And

Lying Became Part Of My Life. I Lied If I Needed To Lie To Get Something Or Get Out Of Something

It Started When She Passed Me A Note In English Class. The Note Said You Don't Seem As Awful As I Hear You Are. I Passed One Back That Read: Beware I Am As Awful As People Say And Worse. She Laughed And I Had A Friend. She Didn't Become My Ally And I Didn't Ask Her To Or Want Her To But She Became My Friend And That Was More Than Anyone Else Was Willing To Do.

Most Of The Time, It's Not The Concept, But The Execution Of Craft That Counts.

Laughing And Love. They Are Both Drugs.

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.