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

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.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

With all due disrespect...

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future."

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

It is what we fear that happens to us.