You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Maybe I am a little cocky. Maybe it's something I need to work on.

When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on

A nickel is not worth a penny more.