One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
