What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.

If we come to Jesus Christ, He completely change us.

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

To know who we are, we must first know we are LOVE.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.