Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

The truth is that there is no absolute truth.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.