Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.