There is a world inside the world.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.