In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

There is no democracy without journalism.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

My books, my paradise!

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.