Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

Love as hard as you can, at all times

Gods have many faces.