Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.