What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.