In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.

Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.