The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).