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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."
84
"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."
54
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
50
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
48
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
32
"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."
29
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
28
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
24
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
19
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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."
19
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
19
"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."
18
"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."
18
"Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops."
18
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
17
"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."
17
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
16
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
16
"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
16
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
16
"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."
16
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
15
"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
14
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
14
"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
13
"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
13
"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
13
"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
13
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