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About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.