"And one's passions are so random and unreliable - cricket scores one minute, Swinburne the next."

"News — communicating news and ideas, I guess — is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they h…"

"I am startled, occasionally, to find “intelligence” used as the antithesis of “feeling”, as though the two …"

"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect,…"

"Such men ever, whether they have some business to transact, or have taken upon them some office, or are in …"

"I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the …"