Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and read more

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself read more

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.

How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.

I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen.

I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen.

Trips were always a blast; he was just a funny guy.

Trips were always a blast; he was just a funny guy.

Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is read more

Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?