I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Until you die .. it's all life.

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.