The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.