It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.