Literature Quotes

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.