"The captain from Star Trek (he was Royal Shakespeare first, I just found out) in X-Men-Two, with a helmet on his head, in that giant brain machine, concentrating hard enough to find every single mutant on earth, who appeared to him as red whisps of light."

"A diary, then, warped by the knowledge that others are reading it."

"A meditation tool, or, less pretentiously, a technique for paying attention."

"The way something I say may or may not be picked up for discussion--and in unpredictable ways."

"It amuses me and some others, it helps me work things through and it sharpens my typing skills. "

"I'm predicting more beating of brains all around."

"I have trouble saying the word 'blog'."

"The existentialist revolution, touring the sand of the inflamed puritans, quit copulating with fountains."

"Any binary with 'party' as one of the terms is an okay binary with me."