Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
I think America has a brilliant future.
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.
My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!