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

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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

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.

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

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