Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

- William Shawn

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the …

- William Shawn

We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?

- William Shawn

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the fact…

- William Shawn

There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann 
Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibil…

- William Shawn

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

- William Shawn