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Quotes by Editor
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
167
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
158
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
97
"Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation."
96
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
84
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
74
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
65
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
65
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
65
"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."
65
"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
65
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
64
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
64
"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
63
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
63
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
62
"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
61
"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
60
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
59
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
59
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
59
"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
59
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
58
"I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign."
58
"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time."
57
"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."
57
"What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen."
56
"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."
56
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
55
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
54
"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
54
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