Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.