[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

I want to coach a team that opponents don't look forward to playing.

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Everyone is doing forensics.

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.