John Gregory Dunne

“I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.”

“In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.”

“There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.”

“You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.”

“Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.”

“Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.”

“What the world does not need is another script or television writer.”

“I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.”