I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

The nerds have taken over the newsrooms.

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Man is a tool-making animal

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

Times are bad, God is good.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.