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

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.

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

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

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

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.