It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

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

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

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

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