Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.