Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

It was assumed that you can't touch evangelical Christians. "Oh, they're the Republican Right. Stay away from those people. Don't even try to talk to them." Well, what's interesting is that there were evangelical Christians who were voting for Kerry. There were right-to-lifers who were voting for Kerry. And it's interesting to listen to the reasons why. To ignore that segment of the electorate is moronic. Particularly if you don't know who those people are, or what their concerns are.