(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.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

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

A cult is a religion with no political power.

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