This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

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's not about you. It's about them.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.