Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

A good book is an event in my life.

Fresh is best.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.