Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.