I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.