It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.