"Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects..."
- Janet Malcolm
"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."
- Evelyn Waugh
"When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lo..."
- Richard Engel
"It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 1..."
- Peter Arnett
"Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.''Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going ..."
- Jack Iams
"We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those ..."
- Pitigrilli
"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."
- Janet Flanner