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

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

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

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

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.