I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

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.

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

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.

Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.