The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.