Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do. Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back. The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies. Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. My work is a game, a very serious game. Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do. Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. Voting is a civic sacrament. Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.' Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Education, for me, has helped me in my music. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that. Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object. I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York. I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie. Acting doesn't suffice. May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions. They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.