We're not in a drastically different situation supply-wise than what we have been over the last two or three winters. There have been some new pipelines put in the ground. They're always drilling and looking for additional sources of supply.

There's a lot of infrastructure being talked about, a lot of liquefied natural gas discussions going on. All those things are going to help moderate and potentially mitigate pricing. But I don't think we'll go back to $2 (per 1,000 cubic feet) where it was in the 1990s, but hopefully it won't stay at $10 or $12 (per 1,000 cubic feet), either.

What we're really concerned about, and what we think our customers are concerned about, is that when prices are going up it's typically because it's colder than normal so customers get a double whammy of high prices and high usage.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.