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

All professions have some element of theater to them.

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.

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

The Best Sword that Kills without a Wound:- Words...!

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.