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

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

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

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

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