"I've been promised bail, ladies and gentlemen, by my office. This is John Chancellor, somewhere in custody."

"I'm bent on proving that you can make living as musician and not die young and crazy like Mozart."

"I think there’s this cult of objectivity in the U.S. about media. There are two sides to every story, but it’s not always objective that one side has as much right to narrate a story. I think it’s dis…"

"Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from…"

"When my mother died and left me it hurt, but I was poor and confused and used to hurting. When the love of my life, or at any rate the woman who seemed to come to be the love of my life after she was …"