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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."
70
"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."
39
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
36
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
35
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
20
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
19
"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."
13
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
12
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
11
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
10
"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."
10
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
9
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
9
"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
8
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
8
"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."
8
"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."
8
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
8
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
7
"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."
7
"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
7
"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
7
"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything."
7
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
7
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
7
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