David Remnick

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.