Thirteen years I took on this last book.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.