On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

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.

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.