Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.
I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey will seem.
Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one is watertight.
Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name.
When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
Love the people who love you back.
You’re not going to sniff my ass, are you? Like a dog?
I'm a demon. I do bad things. It's genetic.
When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
She became the bad company that she kept.
There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.
