Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

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

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