"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."

"The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions."

"Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"It’s not information that promotes growth, it’s transformation."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."