Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.