I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.