Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.