The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

You are better than you think.