A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Someday, before we all die, perhaps I shall get from home a letter in which all the news will be pleasant. I never have thus far.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

If it's far away, its news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom-it's gone.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Nowadays truth is the greatest news.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.