Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

Great questions make great reporting.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.