"The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people."
"I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news."
"Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting."
"Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual."
"I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over."
"If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized."
"Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind."
"Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships."
"Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind."
"What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way."
"Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take."
"Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do."
"'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept."
"Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament."
"Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults."
"It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones."
"There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going."
"In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water."
"You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children."
"Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?"
"As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it."
"I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about."
"I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time."
"You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine."
"There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership."
