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

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

(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.

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.

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

I'm a great believer in outlines.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.