The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.