I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.