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.

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

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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.

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