You're either on the bus or off the bus.

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.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

If we had leaders that knew what they were doing, which we don't.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.