I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments