I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

Bringing Thoughts 2 Life

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.