Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.
The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
