in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.