One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

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.

... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.