Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.