A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

There is no justice among men.

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.