James CameronThinkers

Journalism is not and never has been a profession... it is a trade, or a calling, that can be practiced in many ways, but it can never be a profession since its practice has neither standards nor sanctions.

Los Angeles is a city constructed as though London stretched unbroken from St. Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten - lane four - deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drugstores, hippie hide - outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all shrouded below the famous blanket of acrid and corroding smog.

New York City is the finest three-day town on earth.