I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

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.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.

People don't know how to talk about being depressed - that it's totally okay to feel sad.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.