It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.