Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.

When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.