The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

The Holy instructions of the Creator are:(i)Perfect

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

Life is fun. celebrate. If you aren't being kicked, the world probably thinks you are dead anyways.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.