God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.