Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.