...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.