I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia.

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.

The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true

How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.