I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.