I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

May God deliver you from every darkness to the glorious light.

Think of this as the highest paying job you never applied for.

Please, baby, you had to know the Devil would be well endowed.

If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

One man cannot make a team.

Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously.