To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

I don't have to kill myself, time is going to do that.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about being a writer.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

I don't have a gun, but if I did, I would shoot a baby deer in the mouth and feel nothing.