My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?