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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
I went into journalism for a reason. I try to be a thoughtful person. I try to see all sides. And I do think before I speak.
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.