I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

The first rough draft of history.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

You never monkey with the truth.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.