Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.