I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

My longest love affair: with a book.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.