A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

I think even the Hollywood money people are saying they've got to get the party back from the Clinton wing. They can't, you know, keep nominating these Northeast liberals. They have to look for people who can win.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.