We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.