“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”

“The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”

“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.”

“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes. ”

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addic...”

“Like Salvador Dalis paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever youre on vacation in a foreign country.”

“Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.”

“Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I dont make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”