The Hardest Thing About Writing

Whatever You Choose, However Many Roads You Travel, I Hope That You Choose Not To Be A Lady. I Hope You Will Find Some Way To Break The Rules And Make A Little Trouble Out There. And I Also Hope That You Will Choose To Make Some Of That Trouble On Behalf Of Women.

I Am Not A New Journalist, Whatever That Is. I Just Sit Here At The Typewriter And Bang Away At The Old Forms.

[on George W. Bush:] How Is It Possible That The President Is Off On Vacation And The Vice President Is, Too? Not That It Matters That Much If The President Is On Vacation; On Some Level, The President Is Always On Vacation.

You Get To Be A Certain Age And You Start Reading Stuff About The Age You Are, And You Think, What Is Wrong With These People Who Are Writing These Books? Do They Not Have Necks?

I Am Living In The Google Years, No Question Of That. And There Are Advantages To It. When You Forget Something, You Can Whip Out Your Iphone And Go To Google. The Senior Moment Has Become The Google Moment, And It Has A Much Nicer, Hipper, Younger, More Contemporary Sound, Doesn't It? By Handling The Obligations Of The Search Mechanism, You Almost Prove You Can Keep Up.... You Can't Retrieve You Life (unless You're On Wikipedia, In Which Case You Can Retrieve An Inaccurate Version Of It).