A $10 Million Windfall? At Today's Prices,

After Two Years Studying What Rewrite Men Did With The Facts I Phoned Them, I Knew That Journalism Was Essentially A Task Of Stringing Together Seamlessly An Endless Series Of Cliches.

Skinny Women Don't Enjoy Being Told They're Skinny Nowadays. They Enjoy Telling You How They Got That Way, As Though Starvation Were An Achievement.

We Honor Ambition, We Reward Greed, We Celebrate Materialism, We Worship Acquisitiveness, We Commercialize Art, We Cherish Success And Then We Bark At The Young About The Gentle Arts Of The Spirit. The Kids Know That If We Really Valued Learning, We Would Pay Our Teachers What We Pay Our Lawyers And Stockbrokers. If We Valued Art, We Would Not Measure It By Its Capacity To Produce Profits. If We Regarded Literature As Important, We Would Remove It From The Celebrity Sweepstakes And Spend A Little Money On Our Libraries.

Journalism Was Being Whittled Away By A Wall Street Theory That Profits Can Be Maximized By Minimizing The Product.

I Worry About People Who Get Born Nowadays, Because They Get Born Into Such Tiny Families--sometimes Into No Family At All. When You're The Only Pea In The Pod, Your Parents Are Likely To Get You Confused With The Hope Diamond. And That Encourages You To Talk Too Much.