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

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

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.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.