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 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.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

Destiny had a 518 area code..who knew." - Ehlena

Even in a bad situation, there's always a positive side. Even if you can't see it yet.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."