Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

So few grown women like their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

I remember passion.

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.