I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.