One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.