"Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be."

"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."

"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."

"Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times."

"Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people."

"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

"My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things."

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."