I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.