You're either on the bus or off the bus.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

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

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.