Journalist Quotes

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.