Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

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.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.