I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.