Bored People, Unless They Sleep

Bored People, Unless They Sleep A Lot, Are Cruel.

If You Once Cede To The Court The Power To Decide Elections, Let Alone Even The Power To Halt Counting Of The Votes, Then You Have Ceded It Everything.

In Almost Every Thriller, A Point Is Reached When Someone, Usually Calling From A Phone Booth, Telephones With A Vital Piece Of Information, Which He Cannot Divulge By Phone. By The Time The Hero Arrives At The Place Where They Had Arranged To Meet, The Caller Is Dead, Or Too Near Death To Tell. There Is Never An Explanation For The Reluctance Of The Caller To Impart His Message In The First Place.

It Is Always Self-defeating To Pretend To The Style Of A Generation Younger Than Your Own; It Simply Erases Your Own Experience In History.

Hardly Anyone About Whom I Deeply Care At All Resembles Anyone Else I Have Ever Met, Or Heard Of, Or Read About In Literature.