At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet. . . So if love is to be our watchword, as it must be, them by the word of Him who is love personified, we must forsake transgression and any hint of advocacy for it in others.
I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.