Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.