It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.