Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Life is funny...we never know what's in store for us and time brings on what is meant to be.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

People of difference are always held to different standards.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.