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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.
One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.
Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.
The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.
Writing is the rock on which everything is built.
Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.
The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
The better the book the more room for the reader.
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.
If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
Some things get clearer as you look back on them.
Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.
So many stories are determined before they start.
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.