Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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.

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.