Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann 
Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibilities were.

We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?

Life's journey is one big path with series of events. All these events are connected.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

Life is not free from its forms.