I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don’t have to push it!
When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along – and I must say I had a good time using them.
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