The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

Crushes are more beautiful than affairs because there is no responsibility, no worry, no commitment. Just look at your crush and smile like an idiot.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.