And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Many people in life will catch your eye, but few will catch your heart. Make sure you notice the difference.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

Death to life is crown or shame.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.