If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?