"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."

"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."

"I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around."

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."