You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
The world was simply and sheerly divided into ‘the aware’, those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of ‘the unaware’, ‘the unmusical’, ’the unattuned.
Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.
There are going to be times when you can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
It’s not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives – lends verisimilitude to what you are doing – it’s that it feeds the imagination.
A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you’re weak.