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

Put your good where it will do the most!

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

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

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

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.

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.