I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a targe….

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking..

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as th….

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars..

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment..

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had b….

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity..

I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so w….

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness ….

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of p….

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more s….

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter ….

Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a….

When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being i….

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write..

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say i….

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings..

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our ….

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense..

Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wor….

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to ….