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

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

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

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.