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

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

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

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

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.

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