"My approach to every assignment is simple: Find the story, then tell it in an interesting and entertaining way."
"By definition, authority for me was betrayal and lie."
"I don't believe that human existence is just one damn problem after another."
"I am still shocked when I go into major bookstores and find plenty of books about musical performers but none about music listeners."
“I write to entertain. Period.”
"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
