I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

so many people believe but few people receive

Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.