Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?