Quotes Of The Week

1. "I could kill drug dealers and steal their money to make a living, but I am trying to take my life in a new direction." Mike Tyson after losing Saturday's bout with Kevin McBride, pondering his career after boxing.

2. "Another article on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. Didn't they do some shit on them last year? That shit is not crunk." A friend of mine, commenting on yet another Stein-Toklas piece in this week's New Yorker.

3. "It's like Earth's bigger cousin." Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington about a newly discovered extrasolar planet. The new planet 7.5 times Earth's size with a surface temperature of about 400 to 750 degrees Farenheit. It is just like Earth the way broccoli is like mutton.