Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.