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Writing Is A Form Of Herding. I Herd Words Into Little Paragraph-like Clusters.

For The Past Several Centuries The Bonding Power Of The Family Dinner Table Has Been One Of The Few Constants, And Now It's Binding No More. The Potency Of The Media Is Now Stronger Than That Of The Family. The Wonder Is That Families Still Exist At All, Since The Forces Of Modern Life Mainly All Pull People Away From A Family Centered Way Of Life.

I Remember That The Single Most Vicious Letter I Ever Read Was The Letter Hemingway Wrote Scribners When They Asked Him To Give A Blurb For From Here To Eternity. It's There, In The Selected Letters For All To Read, An Example Of A Once Great Writer At His Very Worst. I Doubt That He Ever Forgave Scribners For Publishing James Jones In The First Place. War, As Hemingway Saw It, Belonged To Him.

I'm Glad I've Been Wrong Enough To Keep In Practice. . . You Can't Avoid It, You've Got To Learn To Handle It. If You Only Come Face To Face With Your Own Mistakes Once Or Twice In Your Life It's Bound To Be Extra Painful. I Face Mine Every Day--that Way They Ain't Usually Much Worse Than A Dry Shave.

No Illusion Is More Crucial Than The Illusion That Great Success And Huge Money Buy You Immunity From The Common Ills Of Mankind, Such As Cars That Won't Start.