To reduce the chances of crime in your home, put a deadbolt in your door, put a peephole in your door, and move your door to Fresno, California.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.

A sense of humor means looking at things from an offbeat angle.

Crime has gone up 35 percent in the Five Towns alone. I have multiple neighbors who have experienced home invasions—been accosted getting out of their cars and assaulted in their homes. A man was attacked walking to synagogue on Sabbath morning just a few weeks ago. We've got a serious crime problem here.

I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.