You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we're about to play it.

I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent really.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

What happened out there?”“I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon.”“A dragon, ” he repeats, scandalized. “Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.