A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

When I dream, I dream of him.

Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%.