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.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance – And the myths that actually touched you at that time – not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas – but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.
You’re either on the bus or off the bus.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...
Sometimes we don’t even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
Put your good where it will do the most!
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there’s not going to be anything to apologize about.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the ‘real world.’ So I started working for newspapers.