Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

I don't feel special. I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.