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

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.