Live By Publicity, You'll Probably Die By

The Only Thing I Was Fit For Was To Be A Writer, And This Notion Rested Solely On My Suspicion That I Would Never Be Fit For Real Work, And That Writing Didn't Require Any.

Reporters Thrive On The World's Misfortune. For This Reason They Often Take An Indecent Pleasure In Events That Dismay The Rest Of Humanity.

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.

It Is Safest To Shut Up And Pay, Which Is What I Shall Eventually Do, Though I Shall Hate Having To Sell The Children.

Urban People, Of Course, Are Terribly Scared Nowadays. They May Yearn For Society, But It Is Risky To Go Around Talking To Strangers, For A Lot Of Reasons, One Being That People Are So Accustomed Not To Have Many Human Contacts That They Are Afraid They May Find Out They Really Prefer Life That Way.