I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

(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.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

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

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I'm a great believer in outlines.