The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.