There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.

I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Mediocrity is contextual.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

My best writing has always been in journals.