It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

The color white is the absence of memory.