I'm certainly not fearful.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal