I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.