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.

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

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

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.