Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.