Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Every new morning is new moment in time.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.