Date of birth: 1915-05-06
Date of death: 1986-05-15
Quotes number: 21
Nationality: American
Profession: Journalist
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
I class myself as a manual laborer.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
