I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

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

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.