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I Never Laugh Or Smile When I Am Writing. When I Come Home For Lunch After Writing All Morning, My Wife Says I Look Like I Just Came Home From A Funeral. This Is Not Bragging. This Is An Illness.

The Thieves Of Manhattan Is A Sly And Cutting Riff On The Book-publishing World That Is Quite Funny Unless You Happen To Be An Author, In Which Case The Novel Will Make You Consider A More Sensible Profession-like Being A Rodeo Clown, For Example, Or A Crab-fisherman In The Bering Sea.

As A Lobbyist He Had Long Ago Concluded There Was No Difference In How Democrats And Republicans Conducted The Business Of Government. The Game Stayed The Same: It Was Always About Favors And Friends, And Who Controlled The Dough. Party Labels Were Merely A Way To Keep Track Of The Teams; Issues Were Mostly Smoke And Vaudeville. Nobody Believed In Anything Except Hanging On To Power, Whatever It Took.

Obviously You Have To Make A Profit To Put Out A Newspaper. I'm Not An Idiot. But When The Margins Are In Excess Of 25 Per Cent You're Talking About Greed.

The Greatest Sin For A Writer Is To Be Boring.