It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.