The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Women are damn resilient.

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

Control is violence

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.