We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

For me, cinema is happiness.