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.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.