“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”

“It has always been my belief that if you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers.”

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

“Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly . All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.”

“I'm starting to remember that it's okay when things don't turn out right the first time. I can always try again and get it right.”

“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”