What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.