I Am Someone Who Values Knowledge, Actual

All I Can Ask From Society Is That It Please Stop Telling Me Why I Should Like Sports.

Comics Have A Problem, And That Is Continuity - The Obsession With Placing The Characters In An Existing World, Where Every Event Is Marked In Canon. You're Supposed To Believe That These Weepy Star Boys Of Now Are The Same Gung-ho Super Teens Fighting Space Monsters In The '60s, And They've Only Aged Perhaps Five Years.

The Nice Thing About Live Performance Is That I've Never, Ever Been Let Down. Partly I'm Lucky That My Audience Self-selects Itself. Generally They Know What They're In For, And Generally We All Just Like Each Other And Get Along. But I Always Find One Or Two Or A Dozen Really Interesting People In The Audience Who Make The Show Different. And That's One Of The Things I Really Like About Performing.

Houdini, The Magician Who Debunked Magic, Could Not Bear To See The Great Rationalist [arthur Conan] Doyle Enchanted By Ghosts And Frauds. And So He Did What Any Friend Would: He Set Out To Prove Spiritualism False And Rob His Friend Doyle Of The Only Comforting Fiction That Was Keeping Him Sane. It Was The Least He Could Do.

Americans Don't Need A Metaphor For War. We Have War. If Anything, We Use War As A Metaphor For Sports.