Sam Shepard
"I've made some big mistakes in my life, some real whoppers, but if I hadn't I probably wouldn't have been able to recognize the real thing when it came along. You don't have to be right all the time. It's okay to make a few mistakes."
“Journalism is making choices, culling out what’s unimportant.”
"When we substitute a threat for an argument, violence for principle, we allow our passion to overcome our capacity for reason."
"Passion and self-interest are threats to liberty."