I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire.

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.