We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that's what is so wonderful about it because it's so structured and your body is changing and you're able to do things that you've never done before. You're stronger than you've ever been before.