There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.