Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

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

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

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.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.