I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.