I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

So few grown women like their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.