When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."