If The Sad Truth Be Known, Writers,

Do Not Keep Company With People Who Speak Of Careers. Not Only Are Such People Uninteresting In Themselves; They Also Have No Interest In Anything Interesting. . . . Keep Company With People Who Are Interested In The World Outside Themselves. The One Who Never Asks You What You Are Working On; Who Never Inquires As To The Success Of Your Latest Project; Who Never Uses The Word Career As A Noun -- He Is Your Friend.

Blame Is Especially Useful In Situations In Which There Is No Apparent Villain-those Moments That Prove, Despite Our Advancement Of Learning, How Susceptible We Are To High Winds And Wet Roads.

Anytime You Make A Person Into Something Other Than Himself, You Make A Monster.

Get Rid Of The Guns. We Had The Second Amendment That Said You Have The Right To Bear Arms. I Haven't Seen The British Really Coming By My House Looking For It. And Besides, The Right To Bear Arms Is Not An Absolute Right Anyway, As New York's Sullivan Law Proves. We Talk About Ourselves As A Violent Society, And Some Of That Is Right And Some Of It Is Claptrap. But I Think If You Took Away The Guns, And I Mean Really Take Away The Guns, Not What Congress Is Doing Now, You Would See That Violent Society Diminish Considerably.

For Those At Home, As Well As For Those In Battle, War Is Curiously Disabling. The Mere Realization That One's Country Is At War Poisons The Bloodstream, Creates An Incessant Mood Of Worry That Infiltrates Even The Most Casual Moments.