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

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

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

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

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.