When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

I don't want--to go--I don't want--to leave you--Eden--

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.