We're All Torn Between The Desire For

I Think A Draft Produces A Better Army Than The One We Would Have With All Volunteers, Because I Think You Get Average Americans If You Have A Draft. And If It's An All-volunteer Army, You Get People Who Join Up Because Of Some Problem In Their Own Lives. They Don't Have Anything Else To Do, They Don't Have A Job, Or They Can't Find What They Want To Do, So They Join The Army. And It Doesn't Produce The Best Army.

We're All Torn Between The Desire For Privacy And The Fear Of Loneliness.

When Those Waiters Ask Me If I Want Some Fresh Ground Pepper, I Ask If They Have Any Aged Pepper.

Writers Don't Often Say Anything That Readers Don't Already Know, Unless Its A News Story. A Writer's Greatest Pleasure Is Revealing To People Things They Knew But Did Not Know They Knew. Or Did Not Realize Everyone Else Knew, Too. This Produces A Warm Sense Of Fellow Feeling And Is The Best A Writer Can Do.

The Closing Of A Door Can Bring Blessed Privacy And Comfort - The Opening, Terror. Conversely, The Closing Of A Door Can Be A Sad And Final Thing - The Opening A Wonderfully Joyous Moment.