The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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.

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.