Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

I've been studying drugs for years.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.