Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clack….

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservat….

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern bu….

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters..

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because the….

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been foun….

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies ….

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition..

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives..

Why in the world are you a Republican?.

Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school….

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place..

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed..

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio..

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . ..

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean ea….

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy..

Everybody is who he was in high school..

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's….

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has ….

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them..