I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

I can hear people smile.

Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.