I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?

The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.