The Official Richard Bayan Page Find out about my professional services as an advertising copywriter, web content "doctor," freelance writer-editor and more. I'll add punch and professionalism to your next project.
My Amazon.com Author Page Instant access to all my books, including out-of-print editions. Buy them new (Amazon.com offers steep discounts) or if you're really intent on saving money, you can order used copies.
The New Moderate Sensible moderate solutions to gnarly political, social and cultural issues. (About time, too!) Lively, fearless and inspiring.
BAYANology My "literary" website and occasional blog, complete with a generous selection of quotations.
"If you're working hard enough to make a fortune these days, chances are that the concept of leisure will be as alien to you as a lava lamp was to John Quincy Adams." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates
"To be intellectually gifted is to be as disadvantaged as a moron, with one minor difference: morons are happier." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates
Cynic:
(n.) An idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision.
-- Rick Bayan, author of The Cynic's Dictionary (and host of this site)