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

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.

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

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.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.