Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Light, show yourself pure and strong, Save a man from evil's throng, Take a form, small and white, Give this girl the strength to fight.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

If a rich man drinks alcohol, he will easily become a poor. If a poor man does not drink alcohol, he will easily become rich.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.