Footnotes let us hear the missteps of biases, and hear pathos, subtle decisions, scandal an anger. - Chuck Zerby, The Devil's Details
The author may, therefore, include in the notes such things as lists, poems, and discursive adjuncts to the text. - The Chicago Manual of Style
I just love footnotes, don't you? - Diana Gabaldon, The Outlandish Companion

For my wife Mary who rocks my world
Thanks for all the years of love and support, and for rescuing me from the Young Republicans

Dear Pat, Greeting to you and all my other friends in the City by the Bay.

I hope that readers from that fair metropolis, the Cradle of Liberty, Hub of the Universe, and Athens of America will find it in their hearts to forgive me... and to buy my book.