I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

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.

That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.