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There Were Reprints Of American Editorials. Liberals Saw It As A Resurgence Of Social Protest And Decried The Discrimination, Poverty, And Hunger That Had Provoked It. Conservative Columnists Acidly Pointed Out That Hungry People Don't Steal Stereo Systems First And Called For A Crackdown In Law Enforcement. All Of The Reasoned Editorials Sounded Hollow In Light Of The Perverse Randomness Of The Event. It Was As If Only A Thin Wall Of Electric Lighting Protected The Great Cities Of The World From Total Barbarism.

It's One Of The Strangest Attributes Of This Profession That When We Writers Get Exhausted Writing One Thing, We Relax By Writing Another.

It Occurs To Me That Our Survival May Depend Upon Our Talking To One Another.

I Loved Almost Everything About Being A Teacher, But I Was An Unusual Teacher

If Everyone Could Understand The Working Of A Psychopath's Mind, We Undoubtedly Would Be Closer To Insanity Ourselves.