Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

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

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

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

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

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

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.