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

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

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

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!