The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
There is something in me that makes me see things through.
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
I think I'm highly loveable.
