"Literature is news that stays news"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"