I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

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.

Fortune hides behind action.

A Guardian lover is the last thing you need, Wynn Myfanwy, she told herself sternly. Too bad it was the very first thing she wanted.

Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.