Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.