The TV business . . . is normally perceived assome kind of cruel and shallow money trenchthrough the heart of the journalism industry, along plastic hallway where thieves and pimpsrun free and good men die like dogs, for nogood reason.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

There is probably some long-standing “rule” among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: “When you start stealing from your own work you’re in bad trouble.” And it may be true.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

We were somewhere around Barstow on theedge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.