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

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

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

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Put your good where it will do the most!

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.