You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.