Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
