I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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

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

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

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.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.