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

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.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

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.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.