They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

You pray and nothing happens. You pray and nothing happens.You pray and nothing happens.You pray

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.