We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.