If you label it this, then it can't be that.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

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

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

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