Ron Suskind

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.