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.

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

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.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

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

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.