There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.