In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
