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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
I'd set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found it.
I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.
I'm a sucker for a man who giggles-not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.
WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.