Graydon Carter Quotations

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.

What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.