Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.