In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?