You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.
I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
