A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Michael Pollan

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

John Stockwell

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

William Cowper

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Aaliyah

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Henry Miller

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

James Spader

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Robert Atkins

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

James De La Vega

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Pa

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia