Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Being hated isn't easy, you know. You just cannot falter meeting their expectations.

Roses are red, Violettes are bllue, Valentines day is consumerous crap, now don't you have ironing to do"Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card

There's no one alive I can't beat.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.