I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

We are what our thoughts have made us

All is well ended, if the suit be won.