The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

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

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

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.

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.