My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

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.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.