Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.