When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

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.

[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.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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