We're offering them the world's imagination.

We are hoping to really draw from the University of Pennsylvania community for the film festival.

With Penn Cinema Studies' authority behind [the lectures] -- with their prestige -- this is going to be a much bigger event than it has been in the past. We're very excited and very grateful to them.

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world's most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world's largest collection of fresh water.

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.