Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

If we don't want to eat vegetables, we don't eat 'em. If the left want to eat vegetables, they want everybody else to do what they do and not do what they don't do.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.