One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.