If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

So few grown women like their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.