No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.

Years ago you followed someonehere, in love with breathkissing the nape of your neck, back when it was easy to beat least two places at once.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

Who knows what the tide could bring.