The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!

I didn't care whether I had gotten dressed, or what state my hair was in or anything– it didn't matter. I felt close to him, and I'd come to regard him as just another part of the scenery.

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.