There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.