Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

The way you write affects what you say.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.