I Take A Grave View Of The

The Fighter (like The Writer) Must Stand Alone. If He Loses He Cannot Call An Executive Conference And Throw Off On A Vice President Or The Assistant Sales Manager. He Is Consequently Resented By Fractional Characters Who Cannot Live Outside An Organization.

It Is An Anomaly That Information, The One Thing Most Necessary To Our Survival As Choosers Of Our Own Way, Should Be A Commodity Subject To The Same Merchandising Rules As Chewing Gum.

Cynicism Is Often The Shamefaced Product Of Inexperience.

Our Hypothetical Rich Client Might Even Have Ordered A Pommard, Because It Was Listed At A Higher Price...he Would Have Never Learned [about Other Wines]. A Man Who Is Rich In His Adolescence Is Almost Doomed To Be A Dilettante At Table. This Is Not Because All Millionaires Are Stupid But Because They Are Not Impelled To Experiment.

There Is A Healthy American Newspaper Tradition Of Not Taking Yourself Seriously It Is The Story You Must Take That Way... And If You Do Take Yourself Seriously, According To This Sound Convention, You Are Supposed To Do Your Best Not To Let Anyone Else Know About It. (like Bed-wetting.)