Put your good where it will do the most!

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

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

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

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.