I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

Not only them...you've also had Young Hudson mouths to fill You could have had a thriving business But you forgot to present the bill

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.