If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.