My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

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

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

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.