Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

I'm going to miss everybody but unfortunately... it's time to go

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.