We Have No Sense Of The Collective

The Rest Of America, With Some Small Exceptions, Has Been Bulldozed And Rebuilt And Then Bulldozed And Rebuilt Again. Our Places Have Become Interchangeable. Here In New Orleans, Everything From The Architecture To The Way In Which People Eat, The Way In Which They Talk, The Way In Which They Do Business, The Way In Which They Dance, The Manner In Which Everything Is Set To A Parade Beat, They're All From Here. There's No Place Like It.

More People Pay Attention To Fiction And To Narrative Than Pay Attention To Journalism. That's Quite Sad. More People Pay Attention To Television Than To Prose. That's Equally Sad, If Not More So.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Is A Fine Actor And I've Always Felt Some Residual Guilt That We Killed Him So Early In The Wire. It Was Always Planned That Way; We Didn't Kill Him Because Of Anything He Did, We Don't Kill Off Actors Just To Do It.

I'd Love If People Relearned The Lessons Of The 20th Century All Over Again. Which Is To Say This Country Progressed Economically And Socially When We Had A Better Balance Between Capital And Labor. Neither Capital Or Labor Won Every Argument. The Battle Between The Two Created Economic Tension, And Transformed The Working Class Into The Middle Class, And Grew The Economy.

It's Been Said That No Man Is A Hero To A Newspaperman, And I Spent Too Many Years As An Ink-stained Wretch.