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.

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.

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

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

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

I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.