Myths and legends die hard in America.

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

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.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.