I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.

“An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”

“Cocaine is God’s way of saying that you’re making too much money.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. ‘Don’t complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.’”

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

“People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.”

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.