Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

If you do something, expect consequences

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.