Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

The Sun was smiling hundred years ago and the sun is laughing today.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.