The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real thing.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.