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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. — Samuel Johnson
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. — David Halberstam
- Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. — David Halberstam
- No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. — David Halberstam