Newspapers are the second hand of history.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

The world is my representation

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?