Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

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

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

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.

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

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.