“I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.”

Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.

I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.

I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.

I think there’s a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you’re lucky, make a decent living here. That’s a big plus. That’s pretty positive. The weather is OK.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.