Being Like Everybody Is The Same As

This Is Not A New World - It Is Simply An Extension Of What Began In The Old One. It Has Patterned Itself After Every Dictator Who Has Ever Planted The Ripping Imprint Of A Boot On The Pages Of History Since The Beginning Of Time. It Has Refinements...technological Advances...and A More Sophisticated Approach To The Destruction Of Human Freedom. But Like Everyone Of The Super-states That Preceded It - It Has One Iron Rule: Logic Is An Enemy And Truth Is A Menace.

I've Never Really Topped Myself, Because Awards In Themselves Really Don't Reflect Major Accomplishment. It's Kind Of A Strange, Backslapping Ritual That We Go Through In This Town Where You Get Awards For Almost Everything. For Surviving The Day You're Going To Get Awards.

If You Write, Fix Pipes, Grade Papers, Lay Bricks Or Drive A Taxi - Do It With A Sense Of Pride. And Do It The Best You Know How. Be Cognizant And Sympathetic To The Guy Alongside, Because He Wants A Place In The Sun, Too. And Always...always Look Past His Color, His Creed, His Religion And The Shape Of His Ears. Look For The Whole Person. Judge Him As The Whole Person.

You Know, Writer Can Write About The Foreign Legion Without Ever Having Been In The Foreign Legion, But That Doesn't Necessarily Mean That What He's Written Doesn't Necessarily Reflect The Nature Of Him As An Individual - Or Her. Using The Male Gender Because It's Me Speaking. I Don't Mean To Put Down The Female.

I Don't Believe In Reincarnation. That's A Cop-out. . . . I Anticipate Death Will Be A Totally Unconscious Void In Which You Float Through Eternity With No Particular Consciousness Of Anything.