Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

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

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.

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

Our chicken maniac, tell us how we can eat it deliciously?” “There's no time for that.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.