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.

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.

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.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused, it can be deadly.

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

The shot was so precise that the bullet went out his forehead and shattered a whisky bottle against the wall behind the counter.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.