- Reporters are amazingly hypocritical. They have all taken drugs and cocaine and have been unfaithful to their spouses. People judge one another by standards they would never apply to themselves.
- God knows, it had never been my ambition to be a gossip columnist. I mean, I was never particularly intrigued by show business celebrities. ... I really want most of them to leave me alone, so I can go talk to writers, which is what I really enjoy. Writers are madmen -- they're all secretly in the closet, jerking off their egos -- but there's something rewarding and vulnerable about them. [Esquire, August 1979]
- My father won some money in a horse race and managed to send me to journalism school at the University of Texas.
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