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

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

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

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

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.