Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

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.

Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.

The devil is a bad devil.

Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.