I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.

The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine.

Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.