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...

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The Olympics are coming… and it’s a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we’re all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes...

We’ve got to rebuild human hearts – and persuade people that hope isn’t just possible, but essential.

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a...

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

What a couple. I’m consumed into ashes. And he’s always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about...

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Television is a visual medium, and you want to look good, but beyond that it’s about reporting, about giving information to the viewers.

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

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.

From two o’clock one afternoon until the ship docked in England again the next evening at seven, none of the medical personnel stopped work.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate’s character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen’s decision in voting.

This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.

I mean, we’ve had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take...

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth,...

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

I did anything that would get me on the air.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks – not that you won or lost – But how you played the game.

If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America’s addiction to oil. You make the connection.

Finding balance in the biggest challenge.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

And I got out, and it was during the time of the Vietnam war, and I was going to be drafted, so I joined to go to journalism school.

Facts do not speak.