The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s … - Carl Bernstein

Marilyn, I have a wife and family and a dog and a cat.

A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a large nose, thin face and deep-set eyes, he looks like the kind of Harvard teaching assistant who carries a slide ruler strapped to his belt. But he is skillful with fragile egos, and also the perfect counterpoint to Bradlee. Bradlee is more like Woodward: he wants hard information first and is impatient with theories. — Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

It seemed a blinding moment of self-understanding. Hate had been the trademark of his presidency. But in the end he had come to realize that hate was the poison, the engine that had destroyed him.