Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.