Nonfiction is never going to die.

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.

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.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...