When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.