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.

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

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

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

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.

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.

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.