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

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.

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.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respe

Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.