Graydon Carter

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of…

— Graydon Carter

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be…

— Graydon Carter

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's…

— Graydon Carter

“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…

— Graydon Carter

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…

— Graydon Carter

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone…

— Graydon Carter

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose…

— Graydon Carter

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

— Graydon Carter

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

— Graydon Carter

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that…

— Graydon Carter

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible…

— Graydon Carter

'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…

— Graydon Carter

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in…

— Graydon Carter

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately…

— Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to…

— Graydon Carter

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

— Graydon Carter

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one…

— Graydon Carter

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

— Graydon Carter

Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.

— Graydon Carter

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

— Graydon Carter

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have…

— Graydon Carter

Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny,…

— Graydon Carter

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and…

— Graydon Carter

Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't…

— Graydon Carter

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

— Graydon Carter