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.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

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.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.