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

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.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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

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.'

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.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.