Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.

I usually only play with very close friends.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.