I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

[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.

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.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.