The Only Way To Learn Is To

Take Notes. Everything Is Copy.

From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have A Shocking Capacity To Be Surprised By Over And Over Again" 1. Journalists Sometimes Make Things Up. 2. Journalists Sometimes Get Things Wrong. 3. Almost All Books That Are Published As Memoirs Were Initially Written As Novels, And Then The Agent/editor Said, This Might Work Better As A Memoir. 6. Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.

Everybody Dies. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. Whether You Eat Six Almonds A Day. Whether Or Not You Believe In God.

I've Always Felt That One Of The Mistakes People Make Is That They Try To Do Something That Is Just Slightly Beyond Their Skill Set, And Then Feel They've Failed.

The Washington Press Corps Thinks That Julie Nixon Eisenhower Is The Only Member Of The Nixon Administration Who Has Any Credibility--and, As One Journalist Put It, This Is Not To Say That Anyone Believes What She Is Saying But Simply That People Believe She Believes What She Is Sayingit Is Almost As If She Is The Only Woman In America Over The Age Of Twenty Who Still Thinks Her Father Is Exactly What She Thought He Was When She Was Six.