I'm a great believer in outlines.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

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

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