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

A cult is a religion with no political power.

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

And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

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

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

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.