Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.
I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.
There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.
We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.