The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

You can't direct without a good crew.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling