Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.