“I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of ...” — Neal Brennan Quote

“I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.”

“I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don't like. Now if I don't like it, I just go, 'I don't like this.' It's way fairer.”

“Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read the lyrics to 'Hot Stuff' by Donna Summer like a poet. He read them very seriously. I was maybe 8, but it killed me.”

“When I was at The Orlando Sentinel as a sports columnist, it was embarrassing that I was the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America.”

“I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.”

“I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.”