Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race— I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

I had an interview once with some German journalist— some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists— maybe a week after— and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses.' I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It's great for the first two weeks.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.