Fame, in Trumpian fashion, is war. You are expected to defend your fame; many people want to take it from you.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Michael Wolff Quotes