You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.