I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Simone Weil

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

George A. Romero

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

William Poundstone

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Stephen King

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Roger Goodell

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anna Lindh

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Heinrich Suso

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

W. Somerset Maugham

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci