I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

Remain open to as much input as possible.

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.