Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.
I got asked to do loads of TV series, all sorts of things that weren't me.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.