Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

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

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.

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

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.