The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

A good deed never goes unpunished.