It only worked for a little while the morning after I agreed to go with Universal an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers and the secret was out.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online too but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient a lot more real time a lot less waste.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today we sigh.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it I get up.

Money again has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

When you think of couponing you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry and make you dinner and to do things for you and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

In 1963 and later papers I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well so is money and what's more life-affirming than cold hard cash?

Before marriage a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work patience love self-sacrifice - no paper currency no promises to pay but the gold of real service.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted which is privacy and non-harassment.