People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
