Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

The thing thats between us is fascination and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether youre a man or a woman the fascination resides in finding out that were alike.

Fidelity enforced and unto death is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up for someone you want to hold forever tighter and tighter whether hes close or far away someone who becomes dearer to you the more youve sacrificed for his sake.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She cant help it cant help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves as if it were his lover his country his art his land is homosexuality.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants _ to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.