Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.

I prayed to Woden for forgiveness, but I think he felt no ill will for me. We are but men. He has done worse.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.