How to fail: Try too hard.

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.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Old age is not for sissies.