On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

...the crazy never die.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Good people drink good beer.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.