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.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Cattle... it called us cattle...We're hamburger, you mean.

I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).