Writers Don't Retire. I Will Always Be

You Really Can't Blame The Military For Wanting To Go To War [in Iraq]. They've Got All These New Toys And They Want To Know Whether They Work Or Not.

We Need People Who Can Actually Do Things. We Have Too Many Bosses And Too Few Workers. More College Graduates Ought To Become Plumbers Or Electricians, Then Go Home At Night And Read Shakespeare.

It's Best To Give Advice In Only Two Circumstances; When It's Requested, And When It's A Life Threatening Situation.

I Just Sat There Looking At Television, Sort Of Dumb And Thought How Horrible It Was. I Had -- The Grand Aspects Of It Did Not Occur To Me -- I Had No Notion Of This Terrorist Network That Existed. I Knew The Were A Lot Of People In The World Who Didn't Like Us, But I Had No Idea That It Was As Well Organized As It Apparently Is. That's One Of The Amazing Facets Of This Terrible Event: How Well They Did It. Incredible. The Competence Of These Evil People.

We're All Torn Between The Desire For Privacy And The Fear Of Lonliness. We Need Each Other And We Need To Get Away From Each Other. We Need Proximity And Distance, Conversation And Silence. We Almost Always Get More Of Each Than We Want At Any One Time.