The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.