I look into my own black heart.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.