I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.