Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times…

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves…

— Holly Johnson

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

— Rory Bremner

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony…

— Neil Gaiman

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the…

— Slobodan Milosević

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble…

— Emily Yoffe

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies…

— Adrienne Rich

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however…

— Brendan Fraser

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them…

— Mitch Albom

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that…

— Sayed Kashua

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional and social…

— John Rawlings Rees

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

— John Sentamu

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all…

— Fran Drescher

Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets…

— Rachel Maddow