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The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.
Life is an overwhelming bundle of loose threads. The ones you can hang on to are precious.
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.
The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.
I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.