Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

Don’t kill yourself when your scorching sun intensifies

About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

Soup is probably a way associated with screwing you outside of a meal.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.