There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.