Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.