It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.