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

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

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

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach