So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

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

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

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