A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.