[Letterman recalled how Carson was asked once by a] Tonight ... I started out in a gaseous state and then I cooled.

[Carson said] I started out in a gaseous state and then I cooled, ... Johnny Carson's star never cooled.

It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

I've wanted to do it since I was 14 years old, from watching 'The Tonight Show,' watching Johnny (Carson) and the other comedians. Something clicked in me that I wanted to be one of those guys, someone who came out and made the audience laugh.

When they made love
Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back
as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down
from the base of the neck
to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.