Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.